When typing the most common words in English, the Colemak layout is more than 50% faster. It optimizes key placement so that your fingers travel less — not only do you type faster, but you reduce the repetitive stress on your wrists.

And best of all, Colemak is super easy to learn.

Some people think it isn’t worth the effort to relearn how to type, but Colemak shares much of the same layout as QWERTY so the transition isn’t very difficult. In fact, you only have to relearn 17 keys — yet these 17 keys make all the difference in the world.

The QWERTY keyboard was designed to be slower because on the first typewriters if you typed too fast the keys would go up and stick together and you'd have to reach up and separate them. QWERTY was slow enough to keep you from typing that fast!

_Decades_ ago I started to learn Dvorak. Within an hour I was beginning to type faster. Then I had to move to a different computer and couldn't type at my normal speed.

If I'm ONLY typing on one computer or on computers I own, any keyboard remapping would be great. But I don't, and they're not always transferable, and even if I do stop and change it for me I'll have to change back again for the normal user. The time I save typing I waste again by undoing the mapping.

QWERTY won a century ago. Supposedly it was to _slow down_ typists so they wouldn't jam the physical movable type pieces. It's standardized everywhere decades ago. Too bad, so sad; learn to type faster or switch to voice input.

Linux still has the webserver crown. Quit it with the Windows/Linux flame war; even Valve can't make Steam Linux fast enough to dethrone Windows/DirectX, just like Dvorak/Colemak can't make "more efficient" a reason to switch from QWERTY.